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Geraldo was Right as Rain

Ernest T. Bass, the town Hillbilly on the “Andy Griffith Show,” was right about possums and overzealous liberals when he shared this tidbit about the marsupial in Miss Krump’s fifth grade classroom when trying to get a elementary school diploma.

“You want to get a possum out of a hole,” said Bass interrupting the math lesson yet again, “you take a sharp stick and put it in the hole. You either jab it out with the stick, or you poke it out. You either jab or you poke.”

Ernest T. would have done well on his own political radio show after that because when you replace the word “possum” with the word “the average liberal” and get to the heart of the matter.

Unable to rest on their laurels, the masses have been at it again. Though they’ve shifted their aim, like a missile, from George Zimmerman to Geraldo Rivera who said that Trayvon Martin’s dress may have had something to do with Zimmerman’s targeting him. (Before anyone reaches for the keyboard to type in words like “stupid,” “uninformed” or “naive,” then hitting send, note that I said “may,” not “definitely” or “absolutely for sure.”)

It’s unfortunate that Geraldo ended up apologizing, though he is the one with the sponsors and advertisers to somewhat please, a wife to support and mortgages to pay.

That’s because the general reality along the motherboard is that we are all judged by what we look like, who our freinds are and how we dress. That may be why job applicants are urged to wear business suits when interviewing for a 9-5 position in the business world. I wouldn’t hire someone with sagging pants, tattoos and a hoodie unless I was casting a music video or had an opening for a longshoreman’s job. Otherwise, it would be x-nay to that one for me.

Rules for Life: You are what you eat. You are what you do, who you hang with and you are how you dress.

Period, the end. Thank you, amen and over and out.

The knowledge about possums that Ernest T. Bass, the town Hillbilly on the “Andy Griffith Show,” shares in Miss Krump’s fifth grade classroom when trying to get a elementary school diploma is invaluable because it applies to many liberals as well.

“You want to get a possum out of a hole,” said Bass interrupting the math lesson again, “you take a sharp stick and put it in the hole. You either jab it out with the stick, or you smoke it out.”

Ernest T. was a sharp man. He made himself a candidate for his own political radio show for when you replace the word “possum” with the word “the average liberal” and get to the heart of the matter.

Unable to rest on their laurels, the masses have been back at work again. Though like a missile, they’ve shifted their aim to Geraldo Rivera who said that Trayvon Martin’s dress may have had something to do with George Zimmerman targeting him. (Before people start hitting the keyboard with words like “stupid,” “uninformed” or “naive,” and hitting send, I said “may,” not “definitely” or “absolutely for sure.”)

It’s unfortunate that Geraldo ended up apologizing, though he is the one with the sponsors and advertisers to somewhat please, a wife to support and a mortgage to pay.

And he right because the reality along the motherboard states that we are all judged by what we look like and we dress. That may be why job applicants are urged to dress in business suits when interviewing in the 9-5 business world. I wouldn’t hire someone with sagging pants, tattoos, gold teeth and a hoodie unless I was casting a music video or a longshoreman’s job. Otherwise, it would be x-nay to the job for me.

Rules for Life: You are what you eat. You are what you do, your are who you hang with and you are how you dress.